Overall, 20 Republicans would need to join Democrats in order for Trump to be removed from the White House.
A two-thirds majority of 67 senators is needed to convict a sitting president during an impeachment trial.
Due to those concerns, McConnell changed the rules to allow each side three days to present opening arguments and automatically included the House of Representatives evidence from the impeachment inquiry.could change the course of the trial. They could be the game-changers in terms of helping Democrats call new evidence and witnesses. What's revealed in those testimonies could then force other Republicans to follow suit.
"While I need to hear the case argued and the questions answered, I tend to believe having additional information would be helpful. It is likely that I would support a motion to call witnesses at that point in the trial just as I did in 1999," she tweeted last week. When the articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate last week, Gardner said in a statement that he is"focused entirely on fulfilling my Constitutional duty as an impartial juror and my responsibility to listen to both sides present their case."
"For me to prejudge and say 'There's nothing there,' or on the other hand, 'He should be impeached yesterday,' that's wrong, in my view, that's wrong," she told an Alaskan TV station in December.
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